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Houston school teacher charged with felony hit and run in girl’s death

Posted on Mar 29, 2010

A woman is facing felony hit and run charges for leaving the scene of an accident after she allegedly hit and killed an 8 year old girl in Bear Creek Park last week. The woman, Vilma Rivas Buchala, 43, a Catholic school teacher from Heliar in Houston, also faces a charge of failure to stop and render aid.

The accident happened when Buchala hit the girl on War Memorial Drive in Bear Creek Park as the child ran onto the street. According to witnesses, Buchala backed up her vehicle and claimed that she did not hit the girl. As the number of people watching the scene of the accident increased grew, Buchala said that she did not think she hit the child. Then she drove away.

Buchala later claimed that she was fearful that the large number of people gathered at the scene of the accident would turn on her, so she left out of fear for her safety. The next day police were told by Buchala’s attorney that she did was behind the wheel of the vehicle that hit the girl.

Buchala is the wife of a veteran Houston Police Department officer who actually drove her vehicle to the police impound lot after the incident. It is uncertain how the involvement of Buchala’s husband in this tragic crash will affect the case.

By law, Buchala should have waited for police so she could provide them with her information, and she should have stopped to render aid to the child.

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